The definition of a timeless classic and a masterpiece. The artwork is gorgeous for the time it was drawn. The Story is rather slow-paced but picks up it's speed when the main story ist happening, which is filled with epic fights, intrigue, surprising softness and much more. You can See how it influenced Tarantinos film's for example by it's gore and revenge theme but it's much more than that. Once it got you hooked you cant stop reading it. The story ist very well written and has you One the Edge of your seat. The Characters are amazing they dont change much in thestory, but the story unveil's a lot of different nuances over time which are incredible and make the characters believeable. If you like epic and very thought of storys your gone love this but the ready ist time consuming because it's a lot of material.One Last thing: Daigoro Breaks my Heart.